Asia in Pictures

Homebuyers demand a refund in Shanghai over falling prices, residents flee the floodwaters in Bangkok, children light fireworks for Diwali in New Delhi and more.

Updated Oct. 27, 2011 11:16 p.m. ET

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A resident talked on her mobile phone as she stood in a queue to buy a bus ticket to leave the flooded Thai capital at a bus terminal in Bangkok on Thursday.
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A vendor carried Knol Khol at a wholesale vegetable market on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on Thursday.
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A group of early homebuyers demand a refund at a sales office of China Overseas Property on Wednesday in Shanghai after the price of one of its projects was cut by nearly 30%.
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Protesters held placards during a rally outside the World Bank office in Pasig City, The Philippines, on Thursday. As World Bank President Robert Zoellick concluded his two-day visit to the country, protesters flocked to the Bank's office to denounce the bank as the fount of global corporate greed.
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Horsemen competed during a buzkashi game in Kabul on Thursday. The Afghan national sport of buzkashi is played between two teams of horsemen competing to throw a beheaded 30kg calf, goat, or sheep into a scoring circle.
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Indian children lit fireworks for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, on Thursday in New Delhi.
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Two wrestlers fought during an amateur wrestling match inside a makeshift ring built on a road junction in Kolkata, India, on Thursday.
Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters…

Indian craftsmen cleaned their tools with milk on Thursday during a religious ritual for Vishwakarma Day in Amritsar, India. Devotees hold special prayers on this day to seek divine help in order to enhance their skills as artisans and craftsmen.
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Kindergarten children sang 'Ode to Joy' upon the arrival of German President Christian Wulff on Thursday in Naruto, Japan. Mr. Wulff is on a six-day visit to Japan.
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Soldiers stood guard as pigeons gathered during a one-day strike in Srinagar, India, on Thursday. Separatists observed Thursday as a 'black day' and call for the observance of a day-long strike.
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A man rode his bicycle past riot policemen on Thursday after a protest in Zhili town, China's Zejiang province. Hundreds of people have clashed with police in the town after a dispute between tax authorities and a local shop owner snowballed into protests, a government-run news site said.
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